Latest News and Insights from Plan A

Loughborough Careers Fairs

Very pleased to have met the rising stars of the construction industry at Loughborough University Careers Fair yesterday. We are recruiti...

Winners - Consultant of the Year (100 or less) 2019!

We are so happy to have won the Consultant of the Year (100 or less) at the Building Awards 2019 at the Grosvenor House Hotel. This is th...

Volunteering Day!

Fantastic day volunteering on Friday with Groundworks for the Welshpool House Estate in London. Thank you to everyone for their hard work...

We are recruiting!

Plan A Consultants is really keen to hear from graduates looking to start their career in Design Management.

Snøhetta - 30th Anniversary Party

You can rely on Snøhetta to throw a good party. Many congratulations on your 30th anniversary and the opportunity to celebrate some incre...

RIBA Part 3 Workshop

Another great session this week talking about Design Management and Health and Safety with RIBA Part 3 students at the AA School. Thanks ...

Building Awards - Consultancy of the Year 2019 Finalists

We are thrilled to announce that we have been shortlisted again for the Building Awards - Construction/Consultant Surveyor of the Year (fewe

Getting it in writing

A senior Plan A Design Manager was recently chatting over lunch about their experiences at University and specifically exposure to respon...

'In at the deep end'

For the past 10 months I have been undertaking my year out placement at Plan A Consultants as part of my 4-year Sandwich Degree. The aim ...

CDM - Managing Operational Risk in Design

The management of risk is a key requirement of The Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015. However, in some cases 95% of the...

Design Management Plans

The production of a Design Management Plan (DMP) is often one of the first tasks that we undertake in the role of Design Manager.

New Faces - Plan A Consultants Launch our 2019 Design Management Apprenticeship Scheme.

This week Plan A Consultants has just employed our first Apprentice.

The Importance of Stage 1

It’s becoming an increasing trend how often the importance of developing and agreeing a clear brief during RIBA Stage 1 is underestimated by

London Healthy Workplace Charter Award.

We are proud to announce that we have been awarded Commitment Level for the London Healthy Workplace Charter which was provided by the Ma...

Client monitoring: Essential Steps

Architects have long had a love-hate relationship with Design and Build. Whilst accepting the obvious advantages of a construction contr...

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